After a gruelling 20 kilometre run in the Wings for Life World Run in Melbourne just six days earlier, endurance athlete Matilda Iglesias surprised herself when she was able to back up with a win in the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. A surprise starter in the Stawell Amateur Athletic […]
Andrew Darnell Memorial
A single mum, inspired by a sponsor’s pre-race speech about a tragic loss and invigorated by a radical change to her diet, raced to a third win this season and her fifth in only her second year with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Defying all that the club handicapper could do to stop
Sharon Howden ended a frustrating run of minor placings but not without a scare before winning the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. In 14 starts with the club this season, Sharon had recorded four seconds, five thirds and two fourths, most of those coming since her one win at Stawell
Stawell Secondary College principal Peter Hilbig had only one piece of advice for his daughter Charlotte when the two runners lined up for the five kilometre Andrew Darnell Memorial Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. “All I told her was to keep going as hard as she could and don’t look back,” Peter said. Sixteen-year-old Charlotte
Veteran Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Meg Parnaby reveled in the flat conditions along the Wimmera River course last Saturday to take out the Andrew Darnell Memorial 8km Handicap. The race started from the Horsham Running Club clubrooms in the Horsham Showgrounds, and proceeded south-west along the river for four kilometers, then returned. It didn’t
Veteran Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Gary Saunders revelled in the flat conditions along the Wimmera River course last Saturday, finishing well clear of the field to take out the Andrew Darnell Memorial 8km handicap. Running from the one minute mark near the front of the field, Saunders soon left co-markers Carolyn Lehmann and Wen